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NASA Delays Shuttle Atlantis Launch Due To Hail Damage
Washington (AFP) Feb 27, 2007The US space agency delayed Tuesday the scheduled March 15 launch of the space shuttle Atlantis for at least a month due to hail damage to the orbiter's external fuel tank. A strong thunderstorm swept the Cape Canaveral, Florida, area Monday, pelting the shuttle with hail as it sat at a Kennedy Space Center launch pad, being prepared for a mission to the orbiting International Space Station (ISS). Space Station Safety Report Released 
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 28, 2007The International Space Station Independent Safety Task Force's final report is now available online. The report was released simultaneously Tuesday to Congress, NASA and the public. The Congressionally-mandated task force was chartered last year under Section 1281 of the NASA Authorization Act of 2005. How Long Does It Take To Rebuild Bone Lost During Space Flight 
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 28, 2007Are bigger bones stronger bones? Not necessarily, according to a recent NASA study that seeks to ensure healthy bones in astronauts. |
Hyundai To Build First South Korea Launch Pad
Seoul (AFP) Feb 27, 2007Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world's largest shipbuilder, said Tuesday it had won an order to build South Korea's first space rocket launch pad. The contract from the Korea Aerospace Research Institute calls for a launch platform and related facilities at the Naro Space Center on a southern island off the town of Goheung. India Planning New Institute To Train Space Cadets 
Bangalore, India (SPX) Feb 28, 2007Faced with a talent crunch, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is contemplating to set up an institute to train techies. In an interview, ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair acknowledged that with the booming IT sector absorbing young engineers with fat pay packets, other fields are facing the brunt. Late Noodle King Of Japan To Be Blasted Into Space 
Tokyo (AFP) Feb 28, 2007The Japanese inventor of instant noodles will symbolically blast off into space next week at his funeral at a baseball stadium officiated by three dozen monks, his company said Friday. The funeral for Momofuku Ando, who died on January 5 at age 96, took place on Tuesday at the Kyocera Dome in Osaka, which can hold as many as 55,000 people, said Nissin Food Products, which Ando founded. |
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Researchers Working On Laser System To Deflect Asteroid Collision With Earth
Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 28, 2007A team of scientists and engineers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) are conducting research that could one day save humanity from asteroids threatening Earth. South Pole Telescope To Help Astrophysicists Learn What Universe Is Made Of 
Antarctica (SPX) Feb 28, 2007Scientists aimed the South Pole Telescope at Jupiter on the evening of Feb. 16 and successfully collected the instrument's first test observations. Soon, far more distant quarry will fall under the SPT's sights as a team from nine institutions tackles one of the biggest mysteries of modern cosmological research. That mystery: What is dark energy, the force that dominates the universe? The Sky Through Three Giant Eyes 
Paris, France (ESO) Feb 28, 2007The ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer, which allows astronomers to scrutinise objects with a precision equivalent to that of a 130-m telescope, is proving itself an unequalled success every day. One of the latest instruments installed, AMBER, has led to a flurry of scientific results, an anthology of which is being published this week as special features in the research journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. |
Cornell To Study Planetary Magnetic Fields Propulsion Research Under NASA Grant
Ithaca NY (SPX) Feb 28, 2007Dr. Mason Peck from the Cornell University College of Engineering received a NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Phase I $75,000 award to study an innovative idea for altering spacecraft orbits in future missions. His paper, Lorentz-Actuated Orbits: Electrodynamic Propulsion without a Tether, made a compelling case for merging the small-scale physics of dust moving in a plasma and large-scale physics of planetary orbits to enable propellant-less spacecraft propelled by planetary magnetic fields. Mars Express And Venus Express Missions Extended 
Paris, France (ESA) Feb 28, 2007ESA's Mars Express and Venus Express missions, to explore our nearest neighbour planets Mars and Venus respectively, will continue to operate until early-May 2009. The decision was unanimously taken by ESA's Science Programme Committee last Friday. Intelsat Names William Shernit President Of Intelsat General Subsidiary 
Pembroke, Bermuda (SPX) Feb 28, 2007Intelsat appointed William Shernit as the new President of its subsidiary Intelsat General. Intelsat General provides innovative communications solutions primarily to military and civilian government customers. |
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